Page 354 - The Book Thief

No, I didnt. He closed the door and Liesel took the medals home. She walked
with them down to the basement and told Max about her friend Rudy Steiner.

He truly is stupid, she concluded.

Clearly, Max agreed, but I doubt he was fooled.

They both started work then, Max on his sketchbook, Liesel on The Dream
Carrier. She was in the latter stages of the novel, where the young priest was
doubting his faith after meeting a strange and elegant woman.

When she placed it facedown on her lap, Max asked when she thought shed
finish it.

A few days at the most.

Then a new one?

The book thief looked at the basement ceiling. Maybe, Max. She closed the book
and leaned back. If Im lucky.

THE NEXT BOOK
Its not the Duden Dictionary and
Thesaurus, as you might be expecting.

No, the dictionary comes at the end of this small trilogy, and this is only the
second installment. This is the part where Liesel finishes The Dream Carrier and
steals a story called A Song in the Dark. As always, it was taken from the mayors
house. The only difference was that she made her way to the upper part of town
alone. There was no Rudy that day.

It was a morning rich with both sun and frothy clouds.

Liesel stood in the mayors library with greed in her fingers and book titles at her